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Explosive images of sex and violence in films by directors such as Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noé, Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier have attracted media attention for the ways in which they seek to shock and provoke the spectator into powerful affective and visceral responses.This first collection of essays devoted to the new extremism in contemporary European cinema critically interrogates this highly contentious body of work and demonstrates that these films and the controversies they engender are indispensable to the critical task of rethinking the terms of spectatorship. Through critical discussions of key films and directors, this book sheds new light on cutting-edge debates in Film Studies regarding sexuality, violence and spectatorship, affect and ethics, and the political dimensions of extreme cinema.Including important new work from internationally renowned scholars Martin Barker and Martine Beugnet, as well as combining a range of approaches to extreme cinema across audience research and theories of spectator ship, this exploration of the darkest side of cinema will be an invaluable resource for film scholars and students.
Contents
ContentsAcknowledgements1 Introduction Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall2 Flesh and Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French Cinema James Quandt Part I French Cinema and the New Extremism3 The Wounded Screen Martine Beugnet4 Reframing Bataille: On Tacky Spectatorship in the New European Extremism Tina Kendall5 Beyond Anti-Americanism, Beyond Euro-Centrism: Locating Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms in the Context of European Cinematic Extremism Neil ArcherPart II Becoming Animal: Posthumanism and the New Extremism6 Shadows of Being in Sombre: Archetypes, Wolf-Men and Bare Life Jenny Chamarette7 Eastern Extreme: The Presentation of Eastern Europe as a Site of Monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/Export Michael Goddard8 Naked Women, Slaughtered Animals: Ulrich Seidl and the Limits of the Real Catherine WheatleyPart III Watching the Extreme: Cultural Reception9 Watching Rape, Enjoying Watching Rape...: How does a Study of Audience Cha(lle)nge Film Studies Approaches?' Martin Barker10 Censorship, Reception and the Films of Gaspar Noé: The Emergence of the New Extremism in Britain Daniel Hickin11 'Sex and Violence from a Pair of Furies': The Scandal of Baise-moi Leila Wimmer12 'Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See': Sex and Politics in Lukas Moodysson's Films Mariah LarssonPart IV Ethics and Spectatorship in the New Extremism13 Lars von Trier's Dogville: A Feel-Bad Film Nikolaj Lübecker14 A 'Passion for the Real': Sex, Affect and Performance in the Films of Andrea Arnold Tanya Horeck15 Interrogating the Obscene: Extremism and Michael Haneke Lisa Coulthard16 On the Unwatchable Asbjørn GrønstadAfterword17 More Moralism from that 'Wordy Fuck' James QuandtNotes on ContributorsWorks CitedIndex
